Major Projects and Programs:
Group organization
Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) works mainly through group approaches. Organize the target peoples especially the woman of the poor and poorest families into groups to develop their individual and collective strengths and ability.
Water and Sanitation
Peoples are educated on arsenic problems and sanitation through meetings. Seminars and group discussion etc. During the last one year 315 sets of sanitary latrines have been distributed among group members and other families of the program villages and other families of the program villages and tested arsenic level in water of 620 hand tube-wells
Trafficking Protection Program
The project area has been an important route for trafficking women and children. From other parts of the country women and children are trafficked and a good numbers of these trafficked persons are trafficking through the area. On the other hand a large number of the women and children has been trafficking from this are The main aim of this program is to make the peoples conscious and aware of the women and children trafficking. The program has been covering 20 rural villages of Jhenidah Sadar Upzila, Dist: Jhenidah Bangladesh.
Disabled Rehabilitation Program
Main aims of this project is to improve the quality of lives of the disabled persons Provided logistic and financial supports to the 35 families of disabled persons who have been operation various alternative income generation.
Promotion of Safe Migration Program
The Program is particularly focused on safe migration and rights of Bangladeshi migrant workers; pre-departure, post- arrival and reintegration assistance for migrant to the Middle East countries. The program aims to establishing of pre-departure services and assistance in destination countries and upon return for Bangladeshi migrant workers and their families including awareness rising on safe migration and prevention program undocumented migration/trafficking in Bangladeshi society in general.
Women Empowerment Program:
The Women Empowerment Project of Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) has been delivered multi-level development benefits, providing much needed skills and income generating potential to targeted households. It has increased their traditional knowledge, skills and attitudes that will have a positive impact on the lives of the local families. The project follows a cooperative group approach for improving self-financing schemes and individual income to provide support for the local economy. It is needless to say that around Bangladesh, women and girls who are disproportionately affected by poverty and discrimination. Often, women and girls are not allowed to make decisions about their household’s income, or tradition and culture forbid them to leave their homes. In other words, half of the population cannot contribute to their families and communities economic development. A great resource goes untapped. But women are an important part of the solutions needed to truly overcome poverty. Our experience shows us that when equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help their families and entire communities escape poverty. When women earn an income, they reinvest 90 percent of it in their families while for every year a girl spends in school she raises her family income by up to 20 percent. Additionally, educated girls grow into educated women, who have healthier babies and are more likely to educate their children. It’s a simple formula: empowerment is the total sum of changes needed for a woman to realize her full human rights. Empowerment is not just about giving women training or a loan. Empowerment is more than that. It means that relationships and social structures that shape the lives of women and girls must change. Women’s empowerment can only be achieved when we include men and boys. Men are often those who define and keep women within their boundaries. But when we engage with them they realize that their wives’ empowerment benefits the whole family. Promoting gender equality and empowering women is the key to lifting entire families out of poverty – and it defines our programs worldwide. SSKS Bangladesh is focused on women exercising greater choice in decisions affecting their lives; reduced violence against women: and the emergence of strong social movements built on women’s solidarity and participation of men.
Vulnerable Group Development program (VGD):
This specialized program has taken recently by Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) aiming to support most vulnerable women group in the rural context in Bangladesh. It is the joint effort with the Ministry of Women & Children Affaires Bangladesh Government. The program is running on only two Sub-districts namely Dimla and Dumar under the district of Nilphamari in Bangladesh. It is estimated that the program will cover targeted about 2102 number of deprived and extreme poor women in that areas and support them through this program.
Mother and Child Health Care Program:
The issue of Mother & Child Health Care and infant mortality in Bangladesh has been a longstanding concern. Bangladesh maternal mortality rate continues to be unacceptably high. For each woman who dies due to complication from pregnancy and childbirth and many more suffer injuries, infections and sometimes disabilities brought about by conditions and it is a common phenomenon particularly in the rural context of Bangladesh. This period builds on Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha success with a six year Community Based Mother & Child Health Care project in district of Jhainadha in Bangladesh. Therefore, it has been imperative to undertaken comprehensive interventions in the proposed areas so that women, children and adolescent as well as common people in the rural areas might enjoy minimum health rights to improve their overall health condition. It will be worthy to extend support through a project to the destitute and poor women and children living in the proposed working area who are in acute crisis of reproductive health, sanitation, nutrition and primary healthcare services. Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha confident enough this support will immensely benefit the poor women and children in improving livelihood security by reducing health related risks and hazards.
Anti-Tobacco Campaign Program:
This is a significant program of Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha. Anti-tobacco campaign program is an awareness raising program and dissemination of information among the community people that how tobacco can seriously injurious for human health and its bad impact and health risk. Virtually the program has been focused on the specific intervention areas with joint effort that was incorporated with NGO partnership program.
Holistic Homeopathic Curative Treatment Program:
Homeopathy, or homeopathic medicine, is a holistic system of treatment and is based on the idea that substances that produce symptoms of sickness in healthy people will have a curative effect when given in very dilute quantities to sick people who exhibit those same symptoms. Homeopathic physicians seek to cure their patients on the physical, mental and emotional levels, and each treatment is tailored to a patient’s individual needs. Considering these ideas a cross sectional study was conducted in Jhenidah city and its adjoining areas to determine the characteristics of patients seeking homeopathic treatment. In the light of Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) has taken this specialized program to provide curative homeopathy treatment among the poor community at low cost service delivery. In order to a sample of 250 patients was selected for interview for the study and recorded patients history by the experienced registered doctor and provided medicine with necessary medical instructions.
Bangladesh WASH Forum:
Shelter Somaj Kallayan Sangstha (SSKS) has actively taken initiative to organize Wash Alliance or Forum just couple of year behind to address the Wash related problems to the community levels. Finally, it comes into existence as a Bangladesh Wash Forum where SSKS act as a Vice President of the Forum. The Forum has the long prelude and in a sense we are trying out to briefly explain now. The Bangladesh Wash Forum (BWF) is a NGO platform across the country that shares expertise on water sanitation and hygiene promotion. It has been formed from the premise that water sanitation is a major phenomenon of the twenty-first century, with impact at local and national levels. The Bangladesh Wash Forum includes all those grassroots NGOs who are working on the topic of water sanitation with the aim of examining in depth the needs of people who find themselves in the particular situation of WASH from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. WASH can enrich societies, but it can also give rise to challenges for both individuals involved in the water sanitation process and governments and non-governmental organizations with stakes in the process. The Bangladesh Wash Forum analyzes and informs on all these aspects. In connection with moreover 50 grassroots Bangladeshi NGOs are deeply involved with this Forum and working on the issue at different geographic context in Bangladesh. Commonly, this includes the construction or repair of water points and latrines, training, solid waste management and drainages are also sometimes included. Over time, water, sanitation and hygiene promotion WASH has become one of our core sectors. The Bangladesh Wash Forum (BWF) brings together a dynamic group of water sanitation scholars from a range of fields across the country. This is an exciting initiatives and journey that brings together interdisciplinary perspectives and enables innovative and ground breaking endeavors. As a collaborative initiative, the mission of the Bangladesh Wash Forum is to support the sharing of knowledge and awareness raising practices; to find links between supposedly different approaches to the study of water sanitation, such as those between environmental causes for Wash and economic consequences; to inform policy on matters related to human security; to promote comparative regional perspectives on water sanitation issues; to consider patterns of internal Wash problems; to jointly influence governments or regions; It also contributes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and particularly to BWF’s role as a policy-influencing body. It further acts as a vehicle for good initiatives and local practice to be discussed more widely. It offers a forum for the development of new synergies between BWF’s Institutes in order to both create and spread cutting edge research. This Forum intends to provide both the general public and stakeholders with easy access to information on the results obtained through the Forum action based programs and subsequent policy recommendations, as well as to communications about its past, ongoing and upcoming events
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Computer Skill Training Program:
The present world tremendously developed in the sectors of computer literacy and information technology. In that sense nowadays nobody questions the significance of computer literacy. It is a fact that computer literacy is a crucial skill that is required in every sector of life—from studies to the job market. Bangladesh has already taken various steps to digitalize the country and hence is making an effort to implement them. There are many organizations who are offering such training programs to develop computer skills.
In the light of Shelter Somaj Kollayan Sangstha (SSKS) have been working on helping to improve the lives and living conditions of the extremely poor in the remote villages of Bangladesh. To value human dignity, they emphasize on helping distressed women, disadvantaged children and vulnerable people in general and also focus on serving the poor honestly and impartially.
The primary focus of Web Design and Application program is to provide a complete understanding of the construction of websites, basic computer knowledge such as MS word, MS excel, power point
etc. Students can put their creativity to practical use and learn advanced techniques of Graphic Design and Multimedia Programming. Hardware and Networking course is helping the students to meet the challenges of the competitive job market in Bangladesh. It is now well accepted that the safest, shortest and lasting route to economic emancipation for
Bangladesh lies in computer learning and IT sector. With the increasing problem of unemployment of educated youth group, it is necessary to maximize the contribution of skill computer training for economic growth and poverty reduction of the country. An integrated approach towards re- integration is necessary to accrue the fruits of successful skill computer training. Country’s development activities may get momentum with the active participation of youth groups both girls and youth. Comprehensive computer literacy program may be adopted for employment generation specifically for the interested youth groups. Bangladesh can enhance the skills and productivity of
unemployed youth force providing appropriate training. Economic empowerment at the micro-level is the basic pre-requisite to reduce the poverty in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Almost half of the population of the country constitutes women folk with equal potential to contribute towards the economic development of the country. The overall human resource development of the nation is not possible keeping the outside the mainstream of development activities. It was a challenging journey for SSKS and exciting
groundbreaking endeavor.